For medications I take regularly, United Healthcare will only cover medications for a limited time before you have to start getting them from their mail order pharmacy, OptumRx. Wouldn’t be a big deal if Optum could get their shit together long enough to get my meds to me without gaps in my supply.

I’ve had repeated calls with them and even discussions with my HR at work - which it’s fucking ridiculous that I should have to discuss any part of my healthcare with my non-medical-field employer, but that’s a whole rant on its own… I just get fed some bullshit about how using a mandatory Rx provider saves money. Told HR I know our company had ~$20 billion in revenue last year so we aren’t hurting, and I didn’t give two shits about saving money for an insurance company, so they’d need to find a different justification. Basically the only option I had to go with if I wanted to use my own pharmacist (that I can literally see across the street from my bedroom window) and didn’t want gaps in my prescription supplies was to pay out of pocket for my meds, so I guess that’s what I’m stuck with for now.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Just needed to vent somewhere.

PS - anyone hiring for Network Operations Techs?

  • Meeech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I understand your frustrations. The company I work for was recently acquired and with that came a new health insurance policy. We went from a REALLY good insurance plan to UHC for health insurance and optum rx for prescriptions. It’s utter dog shit. Everything is exceptionally more expensive. Just last week I opted to pay the cash price for my prescription because the insurance covered price INCREASED the bill by $50.